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Dec 18, 2017 · Paul says in 1 Timothy 2:5, “There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man” — the human — “Christ Jesus.”. So, in his divine nature, Christ was fully God. In his human nature, he was fully man. In his divine nature, he had all the essential attributes of God during his incarnation, and in his human nature ...
May 30, 2024 · Fully human and fully God, Jesus shared in our frailty (Isaiah 52:14; 53; Hebrews 2:17), but did not relinquish His divine power, for humility is not abandonment. Dr. Stephen Nichols observes, “He did not empty Himself of His divine nature. Jesus is truly God. He could not stop being God.”
Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. The term kenosis refers to the doctrine of Christ’s “self-emptying” in His incarnation. The word comes from the Greek of Philippians 2:7, which says that Jesus “emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (ESV). The word translated “emptied” is a form of kenoó, from which we get ...
Aug 10, 2022 · In His “emptying”, Jesus did not lose any of His divinity but rather a temporary setting aside or restricted use of His divine attributes. By stepping down from His heavenly throne, Jesus took the form of a servant in this world and experiencing the same limitations and sufferings we do. Hebrew 4:15 says “For we do not have a high priest ...
- Introduction
- Jesus Did Not Become Less Divine
- The Emptying Is Connected to Jesus’ Incarnation
- Bible Commentary Observations
- Jesus’ Emptying: Becoming A True Human and Servant
- Conclusion
The above Bible passage is a fine example of the deity of Jesus Christ. Being in “the form of God” means that Jesus is God himself, as we know from the context that being in “human form” made him truly human (verse 8). In addition, the fact that Jesus “did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped” while on the earth (or as the NIV puts it,...
Let’s start with what the verse is not saying. The verse isn’t saying that when Jesus took the form of a servant and human that he emptied himself of his divine powers, attributes, authority, or equality with the Father. That is a heresy. Jesus did not become less God in the incarnation. The text simply says that he “emptied himself, taking the for...
But here’s what we do know from the text: the action of Jesus “emptying” himself is connected to the incarnation, i.e., him taking on flesh. We also know from verse 8 that it was a humbling event. Indeed, being in the form of God, sitting at God’s right hand as his equal in heaven, Jesus had all the honour, glory, and privileges of God himself. How...
The Moody Bible Commentary makes the following observation on this passage: Indeed, the verse does not say that Jesus temporarily gave up the independent use of his divine attributes, or that he even gave up anything, but that his emptying himself was none other than the act of him taking on the role of a servant, through the incarnation. In additi...
From this evidence, we see that the act of Jesus having emptied himself, or as the ESV puts it, having “made himself nothing”, did not involve Jesus losing any divine power, attribute, or authority that he has as God the Son, but rather that it involved the humiliation of temporarily setting aside his divine privileges / honour / glory by stepping ...
Jesus, who is God in flesh, displayed the ultimate example of humility by taking on the role of a human servant so that by his innocent suffering and death on the cross as our substitute and resurrection from the dead, our eternal sin debt was paid, and all those who believe in him will be saved and raised with him to life eternal (Acts 16:30–31). ...
Aug 11, 2021 · Jesus said that these two commands (Deut 6:4-6; Lev 19:18) sum up the totality of the Old Testament and are the guide to all ethical matters. When facing temptation, Jesus appealed to the authority of Scripture to do battle against Satan. He repeatedly declares, “it is written, it is written, it is written” (Matt 4:1-11).
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Here, then, is the greatest difference between Jesus’ views on the Old Testament and those of the rest of his contemporaries. Jesus confirms this by following Matthew 5:17-20 immediately by the so-called “antitheses”—declarations about the differences between what his listeners understand to be true about the Torah and what he is teaching.
